Thursday, October 8, 2015

NBA 2K16 Dunk Ratings - Point Guards

NBA 2K is a great simulation basketball game, but for years has had issues with their dunk ratings (often leading to game breaking and downright abusive animations). Last year I decided to examine how these ratings scaled with a players dunking statistics, and I'm following up on that research to see if they have these players appropriately scaled.

Many point guards who rarely dunk IRL are capable of doing so with regularity in NBA 2K16.

Dunk production in general does not fluctuate very much for point guards, and there are clear tiers one can derive from statistics.

A grand total of five players had their dunk rating changed over the summer.

I am also not sure why (beyond laziness) 2K has not adopted the 5-point scale (multiples of five) they use for Standing and now Contact dunk. There is no measurable variance between single-digits increments.